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Department of Social Work

Social work is a noble profession which aims at improving the quality of life of the people who experience a broad range of problems in society. Professional social work deals with assisting individuals, groups or communities to restore or enhance their capacity for social functioning, while creating societal conditions favorable to their goals.

Social workers help people in helping themselves and thus enable them to be self reliant. Through counseling, increasing resources, public awareness, social programs and health services they aim at reaching out to the unreached, deprived masses of society.

Professional social work aims at building up harmony in society. As such its scope is expanding and it is now international and inter- racial. In the present society, social work provides services for children, women, youth, family, laborers, aged, disabled, physically and mentally ill and challenged, destitutes and many other deprived sections of society. These programs of social work are carried out through different social welfare agencies.

Social work provides a suitable career to students with a mature outlook, patience, dedication, commitment, genuine liking for people and concern for their welfare and to whom career is not just a means of earning money. The increasing problems in society also call for more professionals to work in the direction of welfare. For this very reason the department of social work was established in St. Agnes College in the year 2008.

The Department of Social Work functions on the principle of "helping people to help themselves" by enhancing their problem solving capacity and thereby making them self reliant. The strength of the department is vested in the field practice where students reach out to the unreached masses and strive for their betterment. "Tiny drops make mighty ocean"- this phrase is thoroughly reflected as each student has succeeded in making a small yet remarkable difference in society by working for the welfare of people.

Staff Members:

Mrs. Agneita Aiman MSW, M Phil, PGDHRM

Mrs. Asha D. MSW.

Future Plans:

Rural Camp for III BSW students

NGO Management ( Honours Programme)

Short movie Competition for students on “Anti-Corruption and the role of youth”.

St. Agnes College, Mangalore, Karnataka is one of the leading first grade colleges for women in South India. It is a Christian minority institution founded by Mother Mary Aloysia, in 1921, and managed by the Sisters of the Apostolic Carmel. Though it was founded primarily for the education of Catholic women, it has reached out to all sections of women in society. Over the years, it has grown steadily in strength and infrastructure and has stood the vicissitudes of higher education and has kept aloft its banner 'God is Our Strength'. The focus now is on student centered learning, throwing open newer avenues and challenging courses to suit the student community.

Mission of the College: Relying on God's strength a competent, dedicated and committed Team of Educators provides the students with integral, value-based and quality oriented learning experiences and academic and life-related programmes as also Faith Education to the Catholics, in an environment of integrated and interactive learning. The Admission is open to all with special consideration shown to the less privileged, scheduled castes and tribes, backward community, physically challenged and the Christian minority.

Patron: St. Agnes, the Virgin - Martyr is the patroness of this Institution. Her purity of life, modesty, truthfulness and steadfastness are the virtues, which our young women are called to live out in their lives.

Autonomy: To promote academic excellence in teaching and research, the Management of St. Agnes College has accepted the status of academic autonomy for the College from the year 2007-08. In the autonomous set up, the college is free to frame its own Syllabi for the various courses and adopt suitable innovative methods of Teaching, Learning and Evaluation. The Mangalore University confers the degree or gives the diploma to the qualified candidates presented by the College. The government will continue to provide financial assistance in this set up. With autonomy, the College will be more efficient to teach job oriented subjects, conduct examinations and announce results within the prescribed structures of the Semester pattern.

Campus Life: The College offers the Semester degree programmes in B.A., B.Sc., B.Com., B.B.M., B.C.A. and B.S.W. In addition to these regular programmes, there is scope for students to choose from an array of Certificate or Diploma Courses. The Honours Programme is introduced to circulate research culture and earn extra credits.

Partnership with IGNOU & KSOU Study Centre: The College has a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with IGNOU for a number of UG/PG and Certificate Courses. These are available to students as add on courses. The KSOU Study Centre offers BCA, MCA and Integrated MCA at St. Agnes College, Mangalore.

Education to be: Everyday and each hour begins with a spiritual orientation of silence leading to prayer. One's attitude to the divine, in relation to God as Father is strengthened by the realization that we are his children. To live as worthy citizens and be effective role models to others. It is emphasized through the prayer over the PAS, weekly religion and moral science classes, value education classes and programmes pertaining to inter-religious peace and harmony.

Education to do: Each (core) subject combination is supplemented amply by co-curricular and extra curricular programmes. Learning by doing encourage the students to plan, probe, verify, and experiment on a wide spectrum of issues. Dialogue, discussions and debates provide awareness for thinking and action.

Education for Interaction: Education builds the student and through her the society in which she lives. The socio-economic and cultural programmes invite our students to forge new relationships and strengthen those that exist in a mature, responsible way. While education forms persons, the college makes special efforts to mould them into individuals who are called to bear, to care and to share.